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Conservative   /kənsˈərvətɪv/   Listen
Conservative

adjective
1.
Resistant to change.
2.
Having social or political views favoring conservatism.
3.
Avoiding excess.  Synonym: cautious.
4.
Unimaginatively conventional.  Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down.
5.
Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.  Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic.
noun
1.
A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas.  Synonym: conservativist.
2.
A member of a Conservative Party.



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"Conservative" Quotes from Famous Books



... with us, you should say. Giovanni is a specimen of the furious Conservative, who hates change and has a cold chill at the word 'republic' Do you call ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford
... by the present volume is not entirely unoccupied. One of the earliest publications in this line is an anonymous English work, very dignified and conservative. The speeches it furnishes are painstaking, but a trifle heavy, and savor so much of English modes of expression, as well as thought and customs, as to be poorly adapted to this country. Two works have appeared in this country, also, one ...
— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger
... theories and existing institutions. The constructive thinker Rousseau was not less aggressive, but he stands apart and opposed, by his hostility to modern civilisation. Thirdly, we must distinguish the school of Economists, also reformers and optimists, but of more conservative temper than the ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... grandmother,' returned Maulevrier, 'and I believe Hammond calls himself a Conservative, and means to vote ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... The Alstons were conservative, clung to the ways of their parents. This was partly due to inheritance—mother and father were New Englanders—and partly to a reserved quality, a timid shyness, that marked Lorry who, as Aunt Ellen ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner


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